Shell Selects van Beurden As Next CEO

Royal Dutch Shell, the multinational oil and gas giant, said in a press release that Ben van Beurden will succeed Peter Voser as CEO at the beginning of 2014.

Van Beurden, currently the director of downstream business, has been with Royal Dutch Shell since 1983. He has worked in the Netherlands, Africa, Malaysia, the US, and, most recently, the UK. Van Beurden, a Dutch national, graduated with a Master's in chemical engineering from Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands.